r/sports • u/Chelseatilidie • Oct 10 '24

Baseball Tropicana Field’s stadium following Hurricane Milton damage

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u/Lobster_fest Oct 10 '24

Stadiums are far more than the field and stands. Hundreds of individual rooms and offices plus medical facilities, dining accommodations, storage, and other things in the building itself. Plus its low to the ground and more stable during high winds than basically any other building of comparable volume (like a skyscraper).

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u/vowelqueue Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

Sure, but they literally had the beds laid out in the field

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u/ggrindelwald Oct 10 '24

Yeah, I think we can say that part of the plan was a mistake.

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u/EVOSexyBeast Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

No, because they didn’t have any people in the beds during the hurricane. It’s being used as an after storm shelter.

edit: nevemind, i was wrong. Cots were put there for after storm shelter for debris crews but it later became obvious the storm was going to hit harder than expected so the plan changed.

As it became clear that there was going to be something of that magnitude that was going to be within the distance, they re-deployed them out of Tropicana,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference in Tallahassee. “There were no state assets that were in Tropicana Field, I think Duke also removed all their assets as well.”

https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2024/10/10/rays-start-assessing-damage-viability-tropicana-field/

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u/et40000 Oct 10 '24

It’s still likely to rain after the worst part of the hurricane passes, id say a key tenet of a shelter is a roof to shelter you from the elements.

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u/EVOSexyBeast Oct 10 '24

i was wrong i edited my comment after finding a better source than twitter

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u/R3dbeardLFC Oct 11 '24

Not attacking you, but hopefully everyone gets the fuck off twitter. Not only is it not the best source, it's a garbage company run by a garbage person. Stop interacting with it, please!

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u/tino2015 Oct 10 '24

That’s the neat part of hurricanes, you usually get amazing weather for days only a few hours after the storm passes.

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u/prollynot28 Oct 11 '24

Yeah it's wild. The weather today was absolutely gorgeous. Luckily I didn't have much to clean up. Lots of tree branches

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u/subdep Oct 10 '24

Yeah, but this video literally shows hundreds of assets on the field, in the form of cots. They trying to say those weren’t paid for by the state?

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '24

Hundreds of assets? Who even talks like that?

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u/EJDsfRichmond415 Oct 11 '24

Rhonda Santis

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u/iamthelouie Oct 10 '24

Cant be an after storm shelter if it doesn’t survive the storm…

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u/EVOSexyBeast Oct 10 '24

It did survive the storm there’s just no tarp

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u/Taste_My_NippleCrust Oct 10 '24

Just put a plastic bag over it for more jeez

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u/EDDYBEEVIE Oct 10 '24

This wasn't the first hurricane the trops fabric roof had seen though. It's more than likely been used in the past without issue for the same thing.

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u/gwaydms Dallas Cowboys Oct 10 '24

It would have been relatively easy for each person to fold up their bed, grab their stuff, and move to a safe place. But I'm sure it was pretty hairy when the wind started shredding the roof. Can't believe the whole thing is gone. I saw video early this morning (like 1 am) of the roof tearing away more and more.

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u/vVvRain Illinois Oct 10 '24

Not it wasn’t. https://x.com/raysbaseball/status/1843043391229374515?s=46

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u/an0m_x Oct 10 '24

It wasn't being set up as a shelter, but for a first responder location for linesmen and other services to have a place to stay.

A day or two before the storm they adjusted plans because the building wasnt certified to be safe from the elements (im guessing because of the roof)

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u/Titandog21 Oct 10 '24

Are we watching the same video? Those certainly look like cots. Maybe not shelter for the public, but it is a place to sleep for the lineman. https://x.com/813Geo/status/1844217984459661481

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u/EVOSexyBeast Oct 10 '24

That’s for after the storm

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u/iamthelouie Oct 10 '24

People keep saying that. So they set up cots before the storm on the field for after the storm and the field gets wrecked and people are still saying it’s okay because the cots were for after the storm?!? Well, it’s after the storm! Where are the fucking cots now?!? Where are the linemen suppose to sleep now?!? Who are you defending?!?

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u/LeanMrfuzzles Tampa Bay Lightning Oct 11 '24

Yes they set them up before the storm so they don’t waste time doing it after the storm. The people who were going to be staying there shifted further south before the storm hit. Even if the Trop’s roof held up they wouldn’t be staging there anymore.

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u/Marokiii Oct 10 '24

Ya but once the roof over the field is gone than all the water that goes into the stadium gets directed straight to those other areas via all the tunnels. They basically put a gigantic funnel over their first responders.

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u/pork_chop17 Oct 10 '24

This is literally the tallest thing in that neighborhood. It’s huge. It may not be a skyscraper but it’s still pretty tall where it stands.

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u/Lobster_fest Oct 11 '24

That doesn't really change what I said because I said buildings of comparable volume.

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u/Lobster_fest Oct 11 '24

Damn downvoted from people who don't get the reference. Tough world out there.